Meta Platforms and BlackRock are developing a $14 billion data center campus in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock-managed funds will own eighty percent of the venture, and Meta retains twenty percent. This significant investment fuels the global race to build essential artificial intelligence infrastructure. Meta plans to invest six hundred billion dollars by twenty twenty-eight for data center expansion.

Meta stock plummeted almost 10% earlier this year—wiping $175 billion from its market cap—after the company hiked its expected capital spending for AI infrastructure.

Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas.

Meta Platforms and BlackRock are developing a $14 billion data center campus in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock-managed funds will own eighty percent of the venture, and Meta retains…